THE NEW YORKER Some twenty-five years ago he left Carnoustie, and since that time he has played fine golf in many places, but he has never won a national champion- ship anywhere. At Hoylake he could have won if he had been able to play the last five holes in the same figures as Hagen. He was leading Jim Barnes by five strokes at Prestwick, with only one round left, when the gal- lery broke away from the marshals and rattled him so that his game went to pot. Last summer he played the best golf of his life and came near winning both Opens: it was Mac Smith, who was playing championship golf before Bobby Jones could walk to school alone, who chased Jones for 144 holes and almost beat him. All of which is reason for believing that he hasn't an outside chance at Carnoustie, for a man's golfing luck usually runs in its course to the end. W ITH George Voigt, Cyril Tol- ley, and Roger Wethered all put out simultaneously in the fifth round at Westward Ho! the finals of the British Amateur turned into an event more interesting to sociologists than golfers. It presented the spectacle of two agreeable and extraordinarily rich young men meeting in a friendly match after having triumphantly over- come the piddling opposition of inferior incomes. Eric Martin-Smith is the son of Everard Martin-Smith, a banker who is no mean golfer himself. John De Forest, runner-up, is the son of one of the richest barons in England, who decided that no price would be too great to pay for having a champion in the family. So De Forest came over here and took lessons from Stewart Maiden and Horton Smith, and play- ed around the country in the best company he could get into. Then, to stimulate him to do his best for England, his father promised him $1,- 250 for every round he came through, and a bonus of $5,000 if he got in the finals. That made young De Forest careful. In his match with Roper, he lay face-down on the green to study every putt. This Roper just went ahead and putted. He is a former coal-miner who has graduated into a clerkship. But this wasn't the time when the poor lad with his borrowed clubs trimmed an effete scion of wealth; De Forest beat him, and then the two rich young men put on a very exciting match for their final. Possibly the moral is that golf is stilI a rich man's game-if the rich man is good enough. -N. B., JR. 63 s . of the month . COLUMBUS JUNE 1 · JUNE 22 EUROPA iI JUNE 4 - JUNE 20 STUTTGART - JUNE 4 GEN. VON STEUBEN · JUNE 11 BREMEN-JUNE 14-JUNE30 DRESDEN-JUNE 18 SIERRA CORDOBA - JUNE 19 BERLIN - JUNE 28 ., . .. , NORTH GERMAN LLOYD 57 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, TEL. BOWLING GREEN 9-3880 OR YOUR LOCAL AGENT ENGLAND - IRELAND FRANCE-GERMANY . / ( !/(}.Þ ij: t j r 0 0 _ 0 0 r- i' , :', - D , It .\ r... G 7 r (,0. \ \ "'EV ,I '-'" T\\\J\ \:J \----- \ '" "St.f'\v. 1/' - \<tt\....( tt ((:.'- :::;>") '- " , - ) @ \ ' \\ \ 1:\\ 7 h 11\ { (? ,Ii ,íÚ\,' / J ( ( ")"'," -C --=:> '/.:> ..I ,--"-- -::- "DroSeosS ( A d'Z:ertisem,ent) FENIMORE CAMPS SHORTHAND at Cooperstown, N. Y. Small. exclusive camp for boys 6 to 14. from Christian homes. Riding and .Jumping taught by Russian Cavalry Officers. All other sports. Companion Camp for Girls. Adults in June and September. For Booklets address Mr. and :Mrs. Clifford N. Braider. & TYPEWRITING IN ONE 110NTH By Prof. Miller, wbo taugbt at Columbia University FIVE YEARS .. 1 11 l . M ILLER o lNSTITUT E OF SH RTHAND 1465 Broadway at 42nd St., N. Y. City (This is not a Correspondence Course) FENIMORE SCHOOL OF HORSEMANSHIP 240 East 20th st. (Gram. 5.1408 Ex. 2) New York